Focused on Australia’s Royal Australian Air Force and Army garrison communities in Malaysia from the late 1950s, this article probes the creation and management of a complex power dynamic between the hosts in a postcolonial nation and an expatriate community modelled along colonial lines. These overseas military communities comprised Australian service personnel, their family members and schoolteachers. Thousands of locally employed civilians worked on Australian military bases, or for Australian families as amahs, cooks and gardeners, and Malaysian businesspeople capitalised on the Australian presence. The article tracks the political, social and cultural implications of the cross-cultural encounters enabled by Australia’s Asian garrisons, taking into account the perspective of both Australians and Malaysians, to argue that these communities had a marked impact on regional engagement. Negotiations of military, political, economic and personal power were constant and ongoing; Malaysian demands, far from being subordinated, were often both articulated and met.

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澳大利亚的亚洲驻军：冷战亚洲的非殖民化和外籍军事社区的殖民动态

本文关注 1950 年代后期在马来西亚的澳大利亚皇家澳大利亚空军和陆军驻军社区，探讨了后殖民国家的东道主与沿殖民路线建模的外籍人士社区之间复杂权力动态的创建和管理。这些海外军事社区包括澳大利亚服务人员、他们的家人和学校教师。数以千计的当地雇员在澳大利亚军事基地工作，或为澳大利亚家庭担任阿玛、厨师和园丁，而马来西亚商人则利用了澳大利亚的存在。这篇文章追踪了澳大利亚亚洲驻军促成的跨文化接触的政治、社会和文化影响，同时考虑了澳大利亚人和马来西亚人的观点，争辩说这些社区对区域参与产生了显着影响。军事、政治、经济和个人权力的谈判是持续不断的；马来西亚的要求远非从属，而是经常得到明确表达和满足。